Eaten Alive

Well this week was a pretty good week. things are going good and I'm alive!

So it has been super super rainy all last week which is awesome because then it is not so hot! i love being wet from the rain instead of my sweat. hahah we had a lot of miracles this week and I'm trying harder to see the hand of the lord in our everyday work. We have to sent a miracle of the day to our DL who then sends it to the ZL and then the ZL sent out the best miracle to the whole zone. so that makes us think back over our day and find the miracle.

So i guess the biggest miracle of the week was with La's

One of our main LA ladies is working really hard with her friends getting them to take the lessons. so we had a really good lesson with one of her friends and he is super excited about the book of mormon and keeps asking us what is next. so hopefully we can continue to help him to feel the spirit as we teach. then during the Hour of Power it was dumping buckets! it was crazy but it was super fun. this tree 5 feet away from us got struck by lightning! it was so crazy but it was awesome. we were basically walking around in 3 inches of water. it was fun! but then it stopped raining and all the mosquito came out and i got eaten alive.  i am basically just a giant mosquito bite! haha but the very last house we knocked on the lady let us right in and was like i know who you are and then she was like i was raised mormon. so we talked to her for about an hour and she told us her life story and she is married to a non member and she wants to come back to church and she wants her husband to join cause she wants to raise her kids in the church and she is 6 months pregnant. so that was super awesome! hopefully we can start teaching her husband soon but we have to wait till after football season cause he is a coach and he is never home. but one day we will get him baptized. it was so amazing. that is the first time that i have just come across a member that no one knew about. the lord really does guide us to his children, especially the ones who have strayed.

Then on Sunday I decided that we needed to go check on this LA guy in the singles branch that we have been trying to contact for 6 weeks. so before we went to knock I prayed so hard and fervently that this guy would be there. so we went, and he was! we had a really good talk with him and we were able to laugh and get to know him a little and make him feel comfortable with us and then he opened up and told us why he hasn't come to church and i just decided that i needed to be bold and i told him that he needed to come to church especially because he just got a new job and doesn't have to work on Sundays, I told him that it was a message from God that he needs to go back to church. and he was like ok ill think about it. and he wouldn't commit. then i gave him our number and told him to text us if he ever needed anything. but he wouldn't write down our number or put it in his phone so i was getting frustrated but i just kept praying that we could help this guy. then we left and right after we pulled away he texted us and told us that he would see us at church on sunday! it made me so happy and i immediately started a prayer of thanks for the blessing i received. so he better keep his promise and come to church sunday! oh and we taught RS in the singles branch yesterday, it was really fun. this is a good branch and the Singles are awesome. we have alot of fun with them and they are working on bringing non members to activities so we have more people to teach.

The church is true! things are hard and i get frustrated with myself everyday but i know that the Lord isnt giving me anything that icant handle. so i just have to have faith that i can handle this and try and find a way to accomplish everything! I love yall so much! have a good week!